Exhibition view: Annette Kelm, Die Bücher, Museum Frieder Burda – Salon Burda, Berlin (2020). Photo © Thomas Bruns
Press Release
In her photography, Annette Kelm (*1975) often adapts styles and genres such as still life, object, architecture, and landscape photography. She intentionally falls short of fulfilling the conventions of these genres. By questioning the photographic forms of representation in terms of their semantic charge, subtle ambiguities of meaning infiltrate the depiction. The showcased objects appear both familiar and distant simultaneously, turning appropriation into commentary.